President Joe Biden’s designation of two national monuments in California this week will further divide western states and policymakers embroiled in legal and political fights over White House power to unilaterally block mining, oil and gas drilling, and other development on federal lands.
Biden on Jan. 7 used the Antiquities Act to create the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument in southern California and the 224,000-acre Sattitla Highlands National Monument in northern California. Both aim to protect biologically diverse and historically significant land sacred to tribes.
The designations, which California’s congressional delegation supports, were among Biden’s final moves to conserve federal land ...
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